News & Events
2022
- September 14th, 2022: A Conversation with Kate Hopper at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
~~~ - September 15th, 2022: Reading & Slideshow hosted by Mark Ehling with Mark Neely & others, Location TBD, Minneapolis
~~~ - November 17th, 2022: If This Were Fiction Reading at the Words & Music Festival, New Orleans
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Don’t miss today’s @riverteeth Beautiful Thing:
"I think of John Ogonowski, leaving his farm at dawn in his green Chevy pickup. John flew cargo planes in Vietnam, knew the Boeing 767 like creases..."
-from "On the 20th Anniversary of 9/11," this week's Beautiful Things essay.
Read the rest: https://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/2022/06/27/on-the-20th-anniversary-of-911
I couldn’t be there with my fellow Hoosiers today, but I’m writing letters from this riverbank.
The time is now.
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If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays
If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. Coming out in the American Lives series from University of Nebraska Press on September 1st, 2022.
“Mr. Cosmos” at New Ohio Review
The title character of “Mr. Cosmos” is my fifth-grade science teacher from Newbury Elementary School in Massachusetts—a man so wonderful he would leap on his desk and do interpretive dances …
If This Were Fiction
My new book has a due date! I’ve been writing essays for over fifteen years, and it’s been a glorious ride, but I’ve never put out a collection of just Jill Christman essays between two covers …
Indelible
In teaching news, Ball State honored my work with a group of students dedicated to raising awareness and providing resources around the issue of sexual violence on our nation’s campuses with a 2021 Immersive Learning Faculty Award. If you’re a member of a university community, I hope you’ll check out the details of our project at IndeliblePodcast.com …
Jill Spends Time at Essay Daily
“Jill Christman: Indelible (Campus Sexual Assault): a class, a podcast, & a conversation “ (April 13, 2020)
“Jill Christman on Writing Sexual Trauma Under Title IX—‘Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter’:
Writing Sexual Trauma Under Title IX” (December 13, 2018)
“What Happened on June 21st 2018” (July 5, 2018)
“Jill Christman on Essays to Pry Open Doors: Ashley C. Ford, Alysia Sawchyn, & Brittany Means” (December 22, 2017)
“Jill Christman on Kathy Winograd’s ‘Bathing’” (January 27, 2014)
“5 Reasons I Can’t Stop Reading & Teaching Jo Ann Beard’s ‘The Fourth State of Matter’” (September 16, 2013)
“Dec 2, Brenda Miller on Jill Christman” (December 2, 2012)
